The performance, marking the first time the three artists have shared the stage, will take place on Thursday, May 1. The show will feature a set by each group, in addition to collaboration between the artists.

During Livingston Taylor's four-decade career he has written such hits as "I'll Come Running," "I Will Be in Love with You" and "Boatman." The Jammin' Divas blend folk with elements that reflect the band's diverse cultural background.

In a recent interview, Chapin, who has 24 albums and three Grammy awards, talked about the performance, his brothers Harry and Steve, and the influence the late iconic folk musician and activist Pete Seeger had on him and his brothers.

Q: What will one experience at the upcoming show?

A: Well, you get three very strong performers, Livingston Taylor, the Jammin' Divas and me. So it'll be each of us doing some stuff solo. I'll actually have my band with me, but we'll also do a bunch of things together. So it'll be kind of a mini, I don't know, folk festival, ya' know. This'll be our first show together, so it's gonna be fun to invent it as we go.

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A: The plan is, I think, for each of us to do separate sets, which may morph into each other. We're gettin' together early that afternoon. Each of us have been so busy in other ways: Livingston's up in Boston and I'm in Hudson Valley and the Divas are all over the world. We've sent tapes around for each other, so, ya' know, we'll get together and work up about six or eight songs together.

Q: What is your writing process like?

A: It kind of varies; in general it's been a collaboration. I started playing this kind of music when I was 12, with my brother Harry, who then was 14, and my brother Steve, who was 11 or 10. We started as a folk group and once we started writing it was always a collaborative event. So in some ways I was kind of trained in the idea of creating as a collaborative event and it's certainly much more fun that way.

Q: What were some influences that helped shape you and your brothers' music?

A: Music was a big part of our upbringing. The kind of music we were doing changed when we heard a recording called "The Weavers at Carnegie Hall" 1957 or '58 or something like that. The Weavers were Pete Seeger's group that had had some hit records in the '40s and they were blacklisted. But it was the first really great American kind of folk group. People like The Kingston Trio, Peter, Paul and Mary and the Limeliters and all those people learned from the Weavers, as did the Chapin Brothers.

Q: You use music to try and promote a greater good. How effective do you think music can be at promoting change?

A: I remember years ago I did a benefit with Pete Seeger and before the concert someone asked, "Pete, you spent your whole life doing benefit concerts. Has it made any difference?" And (Pete) says, "I don't know. But I do know I met the good people. The people with live hearts, live eyes and live minds." And I would just echo that. You never quite know what you throw out there, where it lands. I guess Pete, by the time he died at age 94 this year, he must have had a pretty good idea that there were a lot of "Pete Seeger children" all across the world.